Open Sourcing our CLI
We are pleased to announce that our ‘swarm’ command line interface (CLI) has been Open Sourced under the Apache 2.0 License!
Moving Docker Containers and Images Around
Giant Swarm runs a Docker container registry at registry.giantswarm.io as a convenience feature for users that have signed up for the private alpha te …
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Cloud
We all know Maslow’s hierarchy of needs and it’s various uses in psychology, sociology, management, and marketing in someway or the other. In the orig …
Deploy a Clojure application in Under 1 Minute
After having deployed a Meteor application in under 1 minute, I thought I’d try myself at another deployment. This time I wanted to go for something d …
Swacker: Code to Container, No Docker Required
The dream of most development teams is to have a setup where code is committed, built, and tested on a continuous basis. This practice is called conti …
The New Make or Buy Decision in Cloud - Your Own Docker PaaS
A lot has been said about how containerization and Docker enables companies to build and run their own PaaS the same way big companies like Facebook, …
Building a Smart Client-Side JavaScript “Discuss on Hacker News” Button
At Giant Swarm, we build infrastructure for developers, and of course we want our content to be visible amongst developers, too. To foster the distrib …
Deploy a Meteor Application in Under 1 Minute
Recently, we had someone on Twitter asking us if we support Meteor. As we were not sure, I thought challenge accepted we could just try it out. And it …
Reliability Is Not Enough - Building Resilient Applications With Containerized Microservices
When we talk about applications and their deployment in production, we often talk about reliability as a non-functional requirement. What is it that w …
